E. Luhumbu Shodu, Justin Martyr’s statements of Christian faith, RThPh 2007/
II, p. 143-165.
In the works of Justin Martyr, several similar and sometimes complex statements present a summary of the life of Christ as it appears in the Apostles’ Creed. They include not only the events of the earthly life of Christ but also the mission of the Apostles, the conversion of the Gentiles, the Second coming of Christ, the millennium reign, etc. (cf. 1 Apo. 31,7). Thus the apologist attracts the attention of his readers to the accomplishment of the revelation by Christ, according to prophesy, while defining the identity of the orthodox Christian in the face of the diversified Christianity of his times, emerging in a conglomeration of sects. Once this is said, it remains to underline on the one hand the nature, the meaning, the efficaciousness and the specificity of such statements, and on the other, the occasions for confessing them.